School will be starting soon and I’m in a rush to get doctors and dentist appointments made, do school clothes shopping, buy supplies, and take out a second mortgage to pay for my children’s free education /sarcasm. So, that means I’m terribly short on time lately. Usually I break up my books into groups of three and give them away to multiple winners. But that means sorting, packaging, weighing, blah, blah, blah. I whimpered a little bit when I tried to think of when I’ll have time for all that. Then I spied my supply of Priority Flat Rate boxes and the light blub went on.

So this month, I’m tossing all my bookshelf breaking books into a box and there will be one big winner.

Up for offer, 17 books listed above. All are new finished copies.To enter just leave me a comment. Make me laugh. Or smile. Or blink…whatever.

Open to: US residents only this time. I’m sorry about that, but I checked and the postage is pretty steep for the size of box I need to ship. It kills me to exclude anyone and I try to open up as many giveaways to international entries as I can. I hope you’ll forgive me this time.

You have until end of day August 17 to enter, winner will be announced soon after.

Giveaway sponsored by: FVBR

No purchase necessary to win. You must be 18 or over to enter, void where prohibited. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. FVBR is not being compensated for this giveaway. If the winner declines to accept or fails to claim their prize within 72 hours of the announcement, they forfeit their prize(s). Prize distribution is the sole responsibility of the giveaway sponsor. Fiction Vixen Book Reviews will not be held responsible for lost or misdirected prizes or for circumstances beyond our control. More information here.

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Sophia founded Fiction Vixen in 2009. She loves urban fantasy, paranormal, historical and contemporary romance. She is a wife, mom, coffee drinker, Mac addict, Kindle lover, and a bunch of other stuff too. Most importantly, she's a firm believer in Happy Ever After.

Thanks for the great giveaway. In honor of your kids going to school here is a school joke:
“A teacher saw one of his students asleep in the class. He asked another student to wake him up. The other student said: Sir, you put him to sleep, so you better wake him up”.

Oh course we understand that’s a lot of books and there were 2 or 3 that really interested me so winning such a box would have been wonderful but i’m also logic and knew it was too good to be true and thus only for US

don’t worry thank you a lot for all the others giveaway that include us

Hi sorry i don’t have much to laugh about lately but if i win these books for me and my grandaughter boy i would smile for a year. We have had alot of family deaths and my grandaughter father just found out he has Cancer and she reads 3to 4 books a day and i have been saving my money to get her a reader or laptop she has earned it cause she got tested and reads in the 12,9 level in the 8th grade. i have bought her books for years never denying her but now i am disabled and can’t buy as many as before. This would be a big help. Plus we donate them to the boys and girls club and the library here when we get finished. We live in Rural Ga. and believe me the Local library is not that great. thanks Joannie jscddmj [at] aol[dot]com

Holy crud! That is an amazing giveaway, it is a whole bookshelf worth of new books! *drool*
Good luck with the back to school prep and all that good stuff. Thanks for the goodie bag chance. lostinsidethecovers(at)gmail(dot)com

Wow. How can you give em up?? My mouth is watering!!! All my kids have grown up, they.have to do all the running around getting shots, clothes, etc. for my grandkids. I would love to sit on my porch in my rocking chair sipping iced tea and reading some of these books. Don’t be jealous — I earned it. ;-). Thanks for the giveaway. trishleroy49 at gmail dot com

Holy wow! Honestly, I don’t know how you manage to just put books in a box and ship them off into the unknown. I think I’d cry just contemplating something like that. If you have too many, we could always play book dominoes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5LlSKKG3M I’d hate to pick those up afterwards. Thanks for the generous giveaway!

If I won 17 new-to-me books, I would be (slightly) less likely to buy new books that my library does not have yet. Also, it would give me an excuse to buy this new bookshelf that I want (but really have absolutely no place to put). Thanks for the giveaway!

What a great giveaway. I would love to win. Sorry I can’t think of anything funny or witty, just blame it on my brain fart. Ha! But thanks for having this wonderful and generous giveaway.
ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net

This is so fab of you to offer! And mailing really is so expensive! My brain is a bit fried right now – I just drove 8 hrs back from a baby shower for my niece-in-law – I’m going to be great-aunt, but as I say I’ve been a “great” aunt for years to my nephews & niece (lol).

WOW can’t wait for the chance to win. I have been reading your reviews for a while now and just love them and your random awesomeness with giveaways. i wanna be you when i grow up… with the exception of the bookshelves being empties… honestly how can you bear to part with these beauties. I so rarely give mine away and when i loan them to friend i make them sign a paper promising i';ll get it back! romancejunkie1025@gmail.com

free education…for my older 2 kids it meant spending $650 on books and $500 for school fees, yearbooks etc
for my younger one it was $600 for bus fees, books etc
and i have yet to buy shoes, jeans, etc
i feel your pain!

A man in a movie theater notices what looks like a llama sitting next to him.
“Are you a llama?” asked the man, surprised.
“Yes.”
“What are you doing at the movies?”
The llama replied, “Well, I liked the book.”

Today was my first day back to work at my elementary school library, a week before teachers and two weeks before kids! Today is also my self-imposed back to reading kids’ books. (The Jeaniene Frost audiobooks I am listening to don’t count!) That big box of books would be something to really look forward to!

*blinks, rubs eyes and blinks again* whoa, 17 books. now thats a haul. i dont live in the US but i have a US addy. so that works right. i hope *grins* i would love to unstuff your bookshelves. *laughs* that sounds kinda dirty huh. what can i say, my mind tends to visit the gutter quite often. *winks* this is an awesome giveaway by the way. glad to be a part of it.

Sophia, I just stopped by to say that I think it’s beautifully kind & generous for you to offer up such a yummy, fat collection of books!! <3

And please DON'T enter me, as I think there's some sweet commenters above who really could use/deserve this way more than me …. MY kids are grown (thank God!! I remember the hideous expenses at the start of the school year, PLUS we also had two August birthdays to toss into the mix!) lol

It sounds like some great books. Thanks for a great giveway. I would love to win. My son’s football is killing my book buying money but it’s so worth it. He’s 8yrs old & it’s his first year to play. It’s so funny watching & they are so cute.

There you go again being awesome and sharing books! Some cute stuff posted already.
I am going to share my night with you, if only to share my misery. Typical Monday night, kids are crabby from being back at daycare, dirty. We made it through supper (yay!) and now onto bath time. The three of them are sending waves of water over the tub, trying to eat soap, and dumping water on each others heads. I finally get them clean, last one diapered and dressed for bed. I look in the tub to take the toys out now the water has drained…and there is poop in the tub.
Poop. A few little soggy piles here and there. So I crack out the bleach wipes, clean all the toys, level 5 disinfect the tub (because hey, I still want to shower tonight), and lastly (thankfuly I have rubber gloves on) reach into the drain and pull out a lump of poop just in time for my husband to walk in. In true Caddyshak fashion he says “It’s not that bad.” to which I shoot daggers at him with my eyes.
Some day I might tell this story to my kids and laugh….just not quite yet.
Off to shower. Got any rubber booties?

I just spent about $400 on textbooks for my son — a college senior — for his Fall semester. That doesn’t leave any money for me to buy anything for myself, particularly since I’ve been out of work for a while now. I’d love some new books to read to take my mind off my financial situation — even one book would be great! Thanks for your generosity. I think it’s great that you do so much to encourage people to read new authors and new works by old favorites.

I love this time of year, my family practice clinic is busy with excited (well)children here for sports and school physicals. So much fun to interact with a healthy child!!! And, because I read YA and children’s books also, I can actually hold a conversation with them about their reading choices.
My TBR shelf is also fairly empty, Your box of books looks like heaven. Thanks for the chance.!

Your only on a second mortgage? I would have to take out a third by the time you add in all hair dye to cover up all the grey hair my oldest daughter gives me. She’ll be a freshman this year so it is only going to get worse! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying “R2D2″. George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

And…

In Natoma, Kansas, it’s illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits. Which is a good thing I found that out before I went there this weekend. Throwing knives and men in striped suits is a hpbby of mine.

Well, I’ve tried to think of something funny but for the life in me I’ve come up with nada-thing. I’ve got to say you are always SO very generous with your giveaways hon! This one is definitely a huge one I’d love a chance to win. Thank you for all you do for us readers! I hope you get everything done that you need to.

Ok, here goes…… I think that Sophia is the most fabulous, beautiful, phenomenal name in the entire world! In fact, with the name Sophia you must be utterly beautiful…..like a goddess….or an angel! I bet that men literally fall to the ground, like dead fruit falling from a tree, because of your beauty. You probably carry a big stick to beat them away with because no one is worthy…..LOL!! Am I right?!? Did you laugh??? Do I win??? Seriously though, thank you for the awesome giveaway! Good luck to everyone!!!

something funny????? i have a joke i can tell you. its a funny but so messed up @ the same time……

a little girl is sitting and playing / her daddy.
she asks her daddy, ” i want a baby sister, can you get me one?”
daddy tells her, “honey you have a baby sister, it’s just that when you run in the front door, she runs out the back door so you dont see her”
little girl thinks, she says, “oh you mean like my other daddy?”

this is a funny joke but boy its messed up. LOL
i love reading. its helped me through some tough times when i couldnt get out of the house and was bed ridden for so long. i treasure every book i receive and if i were to win these books they would definitely be treasured. thanks and good luck to everyone!

Well I don’t have anything funny to say as I am right there with you. Not sure what age your kids are but my oldest is now 16, ugh. She goes to the technical training school for animal science. It’s a public school but they decided to go to uniforms this year. Which would be great if I hadn’t just 10 months ago when she transferred to the school, bought her a whole bunch of scrubs. Plus when they are not in scrubs she is to wear pants called dickies. Now I don’t know about you but when I was growing up dickies were the necks of like a turtle neck shirt you could wear under another shirt. So now I have to search the Internet to find out what Dickie pants are. I’m worried as I’m not sure what the search will bring up and when my 9 yr old daughter will pop up to see what I’m doing. I managed to search with no inappropriate picture for young eyes popping up. These pants are $30 each, ugh. Totally breaking the mom bank this year.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Beckerjo at Verizon dot net

Geez, THATS a LOT of books! and great books at that! I would love to win this! it would keep me busy for quite a while (at least when I’m not busying going to school)!
Amazing, you are!
Thanks for the chance to win!
~Alisia

My kids go back to school next week, which will free up some reading time. Thank god. lol It’s been a long summer.

For some slightly inappropriate giggles…. as in a guy in drag… check out this funny my friend posted for me when I was having a crappy day. It had me laughing until my cheeks hurt! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiY1y3uJ3o

Okay so I was born on December 25, 1979….. Yep Christmas. I only get to celebrate once a year unlike everyone else who has a birthday in between. Dont get me wrong I love that my birthday is on such a special day but when everyone else is talking about Christmas in July I am thinking about celebrating a birthday in July/Aug. All my friends tend to combine my birthdaychristmas gift together lol. I tease them saying I am going to start doing it to them. Getting a box full of books would be a great birthday in August present I would be like a kid at Christmas !!!!!

I am going to tell you a sob story (sadly, it’s all true). This year I have had to replace 2 computers (due to death not desire). I had to replace a car (due to death of a transmission not desire). I had my front yard dug up because we thought we had a problem with our main drain (we didn’t, it was the county pipe in the street that was broken). And this week I found out that I transposed a number on our taxes so we owed money. Now we owe money plus interest and penaties. And it turns out we should have paid estimated taxes this year because of the error I made. I am sooooooo broke. I even had to give up my monthly book budget. So Sad! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

Wow! What a (potential) haul! I don’t have kids, but I am a teacher and start back this week. Budget cuts are fantastic, and these books would be so welcome after my brain stops functioning from reading the essays of my 35 darlings. I have 6 classes of 35 darlings. That’s 210 essays every time I assign one. But I still want to read for pleasure, can you believe it?

I have packed away most of my books bc the house is getting painted/new flooring. I’m already stressing over putting them away (I’m a bit OCD and need them alphabetized) so, of course, the best way to de-stress is more books!

Thanks for the giveaway! This actually gives me some ideas for my bookshelves!

ehaney578 at AOL dot com

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